Kee Hua Chee Live!: PART 2; BRITISH MALAYSIAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE CELEBRATED ITS 50TH ANNIVERSARY ATTENDED BY THE PRIME MINISTER OF MALAYSIA AND THE FIRST LADY

Thursday, March 6, 2014

PART 2; BRITISH MALAYSIAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE CELEBRATED ITS 50TH ANNIVERSARY ATTENDED BY THE PRIME MINISTER OF MALAYSIA AND THE FIRST LADY

KEE@FSWMAG.COM
The 50th anniversary of British Malaysian Chamber of Commerce was a resounding success as it was obvious the Prime Minister of Malaysia Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak and wife Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor enjoyed themselves tremendously. The Malaysian Prime Minister gave an incisive and witty speech which I will elaborate later.

However I was hugely amused by an embarrassing faux pas that almost made me roll in the aisle if not for the fact my table was directly behind the Prime Minister so I had to behave.

My souvenir booklet had the forward by Dato Larry Gan in his capacity as chairman of British Malaysian Chamber of Commerce. But the words "Dato' Larry Gan, Chairman, British Malaysian Chamber of Commerce" was obviously pasted upon and badly glued on as the words were lop-sided as if done in a hurry.

I thought my souvenir booklet was faulty so I took another. And another and each had the same strip stuck on hastily so it was covering something else beneath. Curiouser and curiouser. So I painstakingly peeled off the glued on strip of paper and saw these words "Dato Larry Gan, Chairman, British High Commissioner to Malaysia"!!!

What an embarrassing mistake! Whoever did the proof reading must have been sent to the gallows and beheaded by now!

How could this swan past the editorial team since the words were part of the header and not buried somewhere amid the text!

Obviously it was discovered at the last minute and there was no time to reprint the offending mistake haha.

What a coincidence---on 27 February 2014 at Mandarin Oriental a similar boo-boo occurred during the welcome reception of the President of the Philippines HE Benigno Aquino III by the Philippines Embassy and Federation of Filipino Associations of Malaysia. The huge signboard on the stage proclaimed "President of the Philipines".

I blinked and rubbed my eyes, taking care my contact lenses did not fall out. The words remained unchanged. It should be 'Philippines' and not 'Philipines'! As every child learns in school, there are 3 P's in 'Philippines'! And this went unnoticed by the Filipinos!

Only I with my eagle eyes spotted this mistake at once!

So all the photographs show the President of the Philippines and his entourage sitting in front of the backdrop that reads 'Welcome H.E Benigno S. Aquino III President of the Philipines".

Oh well, what man plans, God splits asunder though there were many careless men in these two cases!

Videos showing the close rapport between Malaysia and United Kingdom

Prince William and Duchess of Cambridge visited Malaysia last year

Speech by Dato Larry Gan

Even the chairs of Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor and Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak featured the Union Jack and Malaysian flag

Soo Shea Pin holding her Anya Hindmarch clutch bag featuring Swan matches

Totally exquisite. Soo Shea Pin looks a bit like Anya Hindmarch who looks a lot like J.K Rowling the author of Harry Potter

The Prime Minister and his guards and minders using torchlights were searching for something that dropped!

I wanted to join and helped search but was told not to stick my big flat nose in

Whatever dropped was found

Atilia and mum Salamiah performing

Great show

Wonderful duo

Marvellous

Sand artist Loong Bee creating Petronas Twin Towers using sand by hand

There!

Talented hands!

See

So easy it seems

Handshake between the Brits and us!

Hooray for England and Malaysia!

Speech by British Prime Minister HE David Cameron read by British High Commissioner to Malaysia He Simon Featherstone

The PM and wife listened intently

The British High Commissioner's speech

The speech by Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak

The Prime Minister and VIPs led by Dato Larry Gan were invited on stage after the PM's speech

Andrew Sill of RBS Royal Bank of Scotland, Dato Seri Mustapha Mohamed, British High Commissioner to Malaysia HE Simon Featherstone, chairman of British Malaysian Chamber of Commerce Dato Larry Gan and Prime Minister of Malaysia Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak

They moved to sand artist Loong Bee's table

The sand image of British Prime Minister David Cameron and Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak was hand created by Loong Bee

A live demo

The Malaysian Prime Minister holds a photo of Loong Bee's sand masterpiece

They wait for someone ot something to happen...

The arrival of Andy Cole, top British footballer and once a star of Manchester United! What a surprise!

The Malaysian Prime Minister shaking hands with Andrew Cole

This is what I call a trophy, replete with ribbons

The Prime Minister of Malaysia was invited to cut the 50th anniversary cake of British Malaysian Chamber of Commerce

Done! And here's to the next 50 years!

Hands Percussion Team in action

Stephanie van Driesen sings Les Miserables which is French rather than British...why not Mary Poppins which is as English as they come? Some wag sniggered 'Wrong country, Stephanie'